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Sims 3 Machinina - Perfect exceeder

2009-09-29T22:00:00.002+02:00

World adventures - pic

2009-09-29T21:44:00.001+02:00

The Sims 3 World Adventures preorder (Brazilian EA Store)

2009-09-26T14:46:00.000+02:00

World Adventures - Tomb building

2009-09-25T20:51:00.000+02:00

Lesson in Cause and Effect—What You Can Build for Your Sims to Explore in The Sims 3 World Adventures

In The Sims 3 World Adventures, you can build like never before and share simple or complex tombs, hidden caves, and catacombs you’ve created with other Sims players. Building tombs is an entirely new way to enjoy Build and Buy Modes in the game and adds a new element to the adventure gameplay as a first for The Sims. To continue the lesson in adventure building, we’ve outlined additional objects that you can use and triggers that will activate behaviors—cause and effect style. Plus, we have more tips. We can’t wait to see what you’ll create!

Additional New Objects + Tweaks to Existing Objects

Note: Triggers and Activated Behaviors are set up using the Ctrl + Shift + Left Click Buy Mode interaction described above.

* Hole in the Wall and Floor: The Hole in the Wall and Floor objects are small, rune inscribed holes in which Sims can seek treasure or hidden switches. Beware, as bugs may come flowing out! The Hidden Switch Trigger can be used to set off Activated Behaviors. Holes in the Wall and Floor can be set to Appear or Disappear. Furthermore, treasure can be hidden inside them for Sims who take the time to look!
* Keystone Panel and Keystones: Every tomb should have keys! Keystone Panels have the Insert Keystone Trigger, which can be used to set off Activated Behaviors. Most commonly are opening of locked doors or treasure chests. Keystone Panels can be set to accept generic Heart, Star, and Crescent keystones. Keystones can be found in tombs, inside chests, underneath rubble piles, or anywhere in which a treasure can be hidden.
* Ancient Coin Pile: Ancient Coin piles are a great reward for Sims. They can be used to buy Adventure Rewards from the special merchant. Ancient Coin piles can be set to be Very Small, Small, Large, or Very Large.
* Rubble Pile: Caves and ancient structures need cave-ins. You can block door ways, hallways, and rewards like Ancient Coins and Treasure Chests by placing a rubble pile on top of it. There are corner and flat wall rubble piles, as well as dark and light stone variants. Over time, Sims will hack away at them and clear them eventually to reveal switches or treasures. Tomb Designers are able to set the length of time it takes to clear the tomb.
* Hidden Doors: Hidden Doors are great for hiding secret areas and surprising the players. These can be set to Locked, Unlocked, Visible, or Invisible, or even “Non-Discoverable.” Visible ones must be opened by patient and strong Sims, whereas Hidden ones must first be inspected. If Locked, the doors can only be opened by a Trigger, as Locking, Unlocking, Hide, and Unhide are Activated Behaviors. Non-Discoverable doors cannot be inspected. In fact, they can only be found when the correct Trigger makes them appear!
* Locking and Unlocking Doors: Doors can be set to Locked or Unlocked in tombs. This is a very straightforward way to gate Sims until they complete a puzzle. A simple example is to set the Unlock Activated Behavior on a Locked Door, that is Triggered when the Sim Steps On a Floor Switch.
* Gigantic Boulder: These can be placed to block entrance to special areas, or an entire tomb. These huge boulders can only be destroyed with the mystical Pangu’s Axe, which can be found via an Adventure in China. The Gigantic Boulder is a great way to give players a reason to return to your tomb once they have Pangu’s Axe.

Trigger Flow and Content Examples

It is best to follow a specific order to design straightforward, intuitive tombs for others to experience. It’s possible to modify the process for what best fits your creative side, but this is a good method with which to begin.

1.) Design the Layout and Theme for your tomb. Is it going to be a tomb filled with fire? What about a watery graveyard with pools, fountains, and steam traps? Before you get caught up with individual puzzles, and tiny details, know where you’re going to place things and what you want the overall experience to be.

2.) Build the Tomb and Place all objects: Make sure your traps fit in the tight hallways, there’s plenty of room for your dive wells, and be sure to confirm that there is room for statues to be pushed and pulled towards completion of the puzzle.

3.) Set up Triggers and Activated Behaviors: Depending on how much thought you put into your puzzles in the earlier steps, this part may be a breeze or quite complicated. There is a very specific flow that must be used here in order for things to work properly.

TIP: In order for the tomb to act like a tomb, you must set up a series of Triggers and Activated Behaviors on the placed tomb objects. It is possible to access these commands by entering Buy Mode, and Ctrl + Shift Left Clicking on objects. Examples will be provided on how to use these commands, but it’s important to explain how to access them in the first place!

Triggers and Activated Behaviors

When you want something to activate something else, essentially a cause and effect, you must first designate a Trigger, then Activate a behavior. For example, you want to make it so that when a Sim steps on a floor switch, a door is unlocked.

Floor Switch to Unlock Door

1.) Place the Door

2.) Place the floor switch

3.) Lock the Door using Buy Mode Interactions

4.) Use the “Link Triggers…Step On” interaction on the Floor Switch

a. Here, you are saying that the Trigger is Step On

5.) Use the “Link to Activated Behavior…Unlock” interaction on the Door

a. Here, you are saying that the Activated Behavior for the last Trigger is to Unlock

TIPS: The “Link to Activated Behavior” interaction only appears once a Trigger is set. If you want to change what the current trigger is, simply click on an object and select “Reset Current Link.” If you want to see the Triggers current set from an object, hover over the object with the mouse cursor. Lines will be drawn to the connecting objects. If you want to see all triggers set up, select “Triggers…Draw All Links on Lot.” If you want to delete a Trigger, click the object, select “Triggers…” with the name of the Trigger. When doing “Link to Activated Behavior,” all available Activated Behaviors that have not already been selected from the Trigger object will be displayed.

To further acquaint you with this building system, here are some common tomb object components and setups for you to use. Remember, these are just examples! Triggers and Activated Behaviors can be mixed and matched to create a huge variety of puzzles.

Keystone Panel to Unlock a Door

1.) Place the Door

2.) Place the Keystone Panel on the wall near the door

3.) Place a keystone in the room

4.) Lock the Door

5.) Use the “Link Triggers…Insert Keystone” interaction on the Keystone Panel

6.) Use the “Add the Ability to Add Triggers and Activated Behaviors” interaction on the Door

7.) Use the “Link to Activated Behavior…Unlock” interaction on the Door

When inserting the keystone into the Keystone Panel, the door will unlock.

Disable Fire Trap with Steam Trap

1.) Place a trap on the floor

2.) Place a trap as close as possible to the first one on the wall

3.) Place a Floor Switch

4.) Use the “Set Trap Type…Fire” interaction on the floor trap

5.) Use the “Set Trap Type…Steam” interaction on the wall trap

6.) Use the “Set Trap State… Firing and Visible” interaction on the floor trap

7.) Use the “Set Trap State…Armed and Visible” interaction on the wall trap

8.) Use the “Link Triggers…Step On” interaction on the floor switch

9.) Use the “Link to Activated Behaviors…Fire Once” interaction on the wall trap

The Sim cannot get past the fire trap. However, when the Sim steps on the floor switch, it activates the steam trap which puts water onto the fire trap. The fire trap is now disabled and the Sim can pass!

Use Pushable Statue to Disable Trap

1.) Place Pushable Statue

2.) Place trap on the floor

3.) Use the “Make Visibly Movable – (Currently: None)” interaction on the Pushable Statue

4.) Use the “Set Trap Type…Electricity” interaction on the floor trap

5.) Use the “Set Trap State…Armed and Visible” interaction on the floor trap

The Sim probably doesn’t want to risk walking across this armed electrical trap. The Sim can now push the statue onto the trap, which will disarm it for safe passage!

Use Pushable Statue on Floor Switch to make Floor Switch Appear and unlock Door

1.) Place Pushable Statue

2.) Place two floor switches (Switch A and B)

3.) Place Door

4.) Lock the Door

5.) Use the “Hide” interaction on Switch B

6.) Use the “Make Visibly Movable – (Currently: None)” interaction on the Pushable statue

7.) Use the “Link Triggers…Step On” interaction on Switch A

8.) Use the “Link to Activated Behaviors…Appear” interaction on Switch B

9.) Use the “Link Triggers…Step Off” interaction on Switch A

10.) Use the “Link to Activated Behaviors…Disappear” interaction on Switch B

11.) Use the “Link Triggers…Step On” interaction on Switch B

12.) Use the “Add the Ability to Add Triggers and Activated Behaviors” interaction on the Door

13.) Use the “Link to Activated Behaviors…Unlock” interaction on the Door

If the Sim steps on Switch A, Switch B appears! However, it quickly disappears when the Sim gets off Switch A. The solution is to push the statue onto Switch A, which makes Switch B permanently visible. The Sim can now step onto Switch B to unlock the door.

World Adventures: Paris!

2009-09-24T12:20:00.000+02:00

World adventures - preorder item (play.com)

2009-09-20T21:00:00.000+02:00

Pre-Order The Sims 3: World Adventures from Play.com and receive an exclusive code to unlock ancient texts, "Pile of Papyrus" (see image below). Codes and instructions will be emailed week of release. The "Pile of Papyrus" texts, include details on the journeys of long gone heroes, the histories of fallen kings, and even a grocery list or two.

[Source: Play.com (UK)]

Your How-to Guide to Creating Tombs

2009-09-18T22:07:00.001+02:00

Building tombs is an entirely new way to enjoy Build and Buy Modes in The Sims 3 World Adventures and adds a new element to the adventure gamplay as a first for The Sims. In this Tomb Creation 101 update, we’ll start by describing some of the dozens of Tomb Objects and offer a tip. Next time we’ll reveal additional Tomb Objects, examples of setting Triggers and Activated Behaviors, and more tips. Let’s get started!

TOMB CREATION IN THE SIMS 3 WORLD ADVENTURES

The game offers a variety of tools, unique objects, and updates to objects from The Sims 3 so that you can design deadly catacombs, beautiful burial mounds, and wondrous caves filled with treasures. Some of these tools include the new Basement Tool, the Special Items Buy Menu sort, and the Buy Menu Interactions.

To start from the bottom, basements let your Sims build up to four levels of underground rooms. Each basement level can span the entirety of the lot upon which they are built. By cleverly building basements and placing stairs, you can create an underground network that takes Sims through winding halls and dark descents.

Here is some of the dozens of Tomb Objects and Object Updates:

Tomb Object (Fogger): The tomb object is the cornerstone of tomb building and will often be placed in every room of the tomb. The Tomb Object is what creates the “fog” that hides non-explored rooms from the player. This lets you create a sense of discovery and suspense as your Sims explore new tombs. The “fog” will recede from a room when a player enters the room through a door, descends stairs into the room, enters a room that is connected to a fogged room with an arch, or if a Sim “Looks Through” a window that looks into a fogged room. Adding or Removing fog is also a potential Activated Behavior.

Floor Switch: The floor switch is a classic adventure game object. It is a small, 1 tile floor object on which Sims can stand or push statues. Stepping On and Off the switch are both Triggers that can connect to Activated behaviors. Floor Switches can also be set to Appear or Disappear.

Wall and Floor Trap: The traps are two different objects that can be placed on the wall or floor. These can be set to shoot fire, darts, steam, or electricity on unsuspecting Sims. They can have a variety of states, including hidden and dormant, armed and visible, hidden and armed, or hidden and firing. Each of these states can be activated by Sims walking over them or as an Activated Behavior. Traps can light Sims on fire or knock them out. However, there are multiple ways to handle traps. Sims can disarm them by tinkering with them, or push statues upon them to disarm. Water will disarm a fire trap, which makes a great puzzle element when paired with the steam trap…which creates water! Sims can walk with immunity through a fire trap when soaked. Experiment and come up with your own puzzles!

Dive Well: Dive Wells are one of the most exciting Tomb Objects. Sims can use them to become Soaked, which makes them immune to fire, or to put themselves out when already on fire. A Hidden Switch can be set at the bottom of dive wells as a Trigger. You can always place treasures at the bottom. Another fun element is that you can set the color of the water in the dive well, so fire tombs can have blood red water, whereas a tomb with a poison theme can have murky green water. Dive Wells are most fun when they are set up as portals. Dive Wells set as Portals will connect to each other. Sims will go to the bottom, and then emerge from the closest dive well on the same floor. It’s also possible to designate a Dive Well as an Uber Dive Well. Here, you designate a name so that you can define the precise point of origin and exit – even across multiple lots in the world. This lets you create one-of-a-kind entrances to island tombs and other inaccessible areas.

Treasure Chest: The biggest reason to explore anything is to find treasure at the end. Treasure Chests let you fill your tomb creations with various treasures, keys, garbage, or whatever you can imagine. Opening and Inserting a Keystone a treasure chest are also Triggers that can set Activated Behaviors.

Sarcophagus: The Sarcophagus can act as a large, ornate treasure chest, a place to hide, a place to sleep, and even a place to WooHoo. Most exciting, however, is its ability to spawn mummies. Mummies will patrol tombs in search of unsuspecting Sims to pummel and *gasp* curse! Mummies provide an element of danger and the unexpected to any tomb.

Torch Lever: The torch lever, like the Floor Switch, is an object for Sims to pull on to trigger Activated Behaviors. Some can be set to active, whereas others can be dummies, forcing players to carefully examine their surroundings. It’s possible to define the colors of the torch light, which allows Tomb Designers to provide hints and clues on how to complete puzzles. Or, to simply set the ambience of a tomb!

Pushable Statues: Pushable Statues are another classic adventure game element. They can be pushed on top of traps to disarm them, or cleverly pushed through a maze to unveil a formerly blocked path. Their most common use is to be paired with a floor switch. Floor Switch triggers can be set so that they activate something when a Sim is on them, but deactivate as soon as a Sim steps off of them. This means a Sim must push a statue on top of them in order to keep the floor switch depressed. Pushable Statues can be set to be secretly pushable (they require inspection), visibly pushable (no inspection needed), or not pushable at all.

Hidden Stairways: Stairways from The Sims 3 can be set to Hidden now. This is an Activated Behavior, so that a Trigger can now Hide or Unhide the stairs. Hidden Stairways are a great way to surprise players. Just when it seems there’s no way out, pulling a switch reveals a stairway!

Stay tuned for more details on Tomb Creation in The Sims 3 World Adventures including more object details on Tomb Objects and Triggers and Activated Behaviors. For now, here is a tip from the development team. The adventure is near…the game will ship November 17, 2009.

TIP 1 – Basements
Basements cannot be built directly underneath pools or ponds. When building above ground, it helps to plan for stairways that descend into basements ahead of time to reduce rework! You can access the Special Items Buy Menu sort by going to Buy Mode, opening the cheat console (hit Shift + Ctrl + C) and entering “buydebug.” This new sort allows you to pick out new tomb objects such as floor traps, floor switches, dive wells, and more!

ATI Catalyst 9.9 drivers – Graphical corruption fix for The Sims 3

2009-09-15T10:39:00.001+02:00

ATI released it's new Catalyst 9.9 Driver!

Fixed issues:

* Anti-Aliasing support for Ghostbusters

* Edge enhancement and de-noise sliders in ATI Catalyst Control Center no longer lags or appears out of sync with mouse movement

* Launching Hotkeys Manager in ATI Catalyst Control Center no longer causes an unhandled exception error

* The “Desktop Rotation” page in ATI Catalyst Control Center no longer shows additional information for the second display when the secondary adapter is connected

* HDMI is now detected properly as DTV (HDMI) instead of DTV (DVI) when the HDMI display is hotplugged for the first time

* ATI Catalyst Control Center no longer displays error message when specific HDMI displays are hot unplugged and hotplugged back

* Intermittent failures no longer occur with Cyberlink MediaShow Espresso once a transcoding process has been completed

* ATI CrossFireXTM support for Resident Evil 5Graphics corruption fix for Sims 3ATI

* CatalystTM Control Center – Basic mode now responds appropriately after exiting

* Quick Adjust Video Settings

Download the latest release here.

Simowisko - impreza The Sims 3 i Kotek.pl

2009-09-14T10:00:00.000+02:00

First Time Buyer - Sims 3 store

2009-09-12T11:03:00.000+02:00

Haven't purchased from The Sims™ 3 Store yet?

Purchase your FIRST SimPoints bundle and get a FREE* item!

Buy 500 SimPoints and get: Generation Clock!

Buy 1000 SimPoints and get: Byron Desk!

Buy 2000 SimPoints and get: Deco Tank!

*In addition to SimPoints purchase, The Sims 3 game, EA Online Account, acceptance of The Sims 3 Store Digital Service Agreement and product registration with serial code enclosed with The Sims 3 game required to redeem free virtual item.EA Online Terms and Conditions available at www.ea.com.You must be 13 + to register for an EA Account.Offer expires 10/31/2009 and is redeemable only from The Sims 3 Store at store.thesims3.com.Offer cannot be combined with any other offer, gift card, rebate or discount coupon. Limit one offer per person. Free item is nontransferable and not redeemable for cash. Void where

[Source: store.thesims3]

Sims 3 World Adventure - new images

2009-09-11T10:55:00.000+02:00

Beware of Mummies in The Sims 3 World Adventures

In The Sims 3 World Adventures, you can accept challenges, find treasures, discover what’s lurking in hidden caves, tombs and more with the first ever adventure gameplay. While venturing to Egypt, one of three real-world inspired locations you can journey to, watch out for any sarcophagus in the tombs that may have an angry mummy just waiting to put a curse on you. Unless you are a master of the martial arts skill, the mummy will win in a fight and you’ll either be knocked out or cursed. When cursed, you can go to the Sphinx and plead before it in an attempt to find the soul peace statue, which removes the curse. If not, so long Sim!

What’s better than being chased by a mummy? Spend the night in a cursed sarcophagus and find out what it’s like to be a mummy! You will live longer, your energy and bladder motives won’t decay which means no bathroom breaks or sleeping. You’ll be strong, have unique mummy socials, have a longer lifespan, and more. But note, you’ll move more slowly and be prone to catching on fire more easily. But that’s ok, because you’d then be able to come back as a ghost mummy. Cool.

The Sims 3 World Adventures expansion pack will ship on November 17, 2009 for the PC and MAC.

Now Available! Exclusive New Sets at The Sims 3 Store.

2009-09-04T12:12:00.008+02:00

Celebrate the spooktacular with FREE Halloween Treats for the home! Be sure to check out the Regal Living, Steampunk, Jet Set Elders and the Victorian Fashions Set!

Halloween Treats

Full Regal Living Set

Steampunk

Victorian Fashions

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Bang Bang - SIMS 3

2009-09-04T12:05:00.002+02:00

New screenshots

2009-08-30T20:22:00.003+02:00

Box Art Revealed for The Sims 3 World Adventures

2009-08-30T20:18:00.003+02:00

We’re happy to reveal the box art for The Sims 3 World Adventures and two new screenshots showing a close call with a fire trap and an angry mummy intent on cursing your Sim in Egypt, one of three locations your Sims can venture to in the game. The Sims 3 World Adventures expansion pack will ship on November 17, 2009 for the PC and MAC.

The Sims 3 Machinima - Alone 2 Trailer

2009-08-24T16:12:00.000+02:00

Connecting Garages to Foundations in The Sims 3

2009-08-23T11:41:00.002+02:00

Sims 3 Bridge Tutorial (Arched Bridge)

2009-08-23T10:42:00.001+02:00

EA gamescom

2009-08-23T10:39:00.001+02:00

Presentation Sims 3: Destination Adventures - tom's games

2009-08-22T01:08:00.002+02:00

Maxis thought of those which reproached Sims 3d' for being too suburban and sedentary. Locked up in their city, Sims turned finally in round in their job and their social interactions. As its name indicates it, Destination Adventure is the occasion to send them to travel a little in exotic countries, three: Egypt, China and… France.

Read the complete preview here.

World Adventures - Cover

2009-08-21T10:02:00.002+02:00

[Source: SimTimes.de]

Mr. Cheesy’s Hair and Clothing SALE.

2009-08-21T09:56:00.000+02:00

Mr. Cheesy’s Hair and Clothing SALE starts torday.
check it out here.

EA's The Sims 3 World Adventures to Feature Global Artists

2009-08-19T09:22:00.001+02:00

BusinessWire - The Sims fans around the world will be rockin' out to new Simlish music in The Sims(TM) 3 World Adventures Expansion Pack* for the PC and Mac this fall. The EA Play Label of Electronic Arts Inc. (NASDAQ:ERTS) today announced that in The Sims 3 World Adventures, players will have their chance to get down, Simlish-style, to artists like GRAMMY award-winner Nelly Furtado, rising star Pixie Lott, German sensation Stefanie Heinzmann, breaking new rock band Matt & Kim, global indie dance rockers Young Punx, and more!

"I was really excited when I heard EA wanted me to be involved with The Sims 3 World Adventures," said Nelly Furtado. "I love languages, and it was so fun singing in Simlish."

"We have been busy recording the eclectic mix of songs in Simlish, the official language of The Sims," said Robi Kauker, Audio Director for The Sims Studio at EA. "The collection of artists' songs in the game are fantastic and there's something every player will recognize and enjoy."

"I think it's really cool to have a song in The Sims 3 World Adventures," added Pixie Lott. "You can go over to a radio in the game, play the Simlish version of "Mama Do," and take that radio with you anywhere you go inside the game!"

Current artists and songs featured in the game include:

-- Nelly Furtado - "Manos al Aire"

-- Pixie Lott - "Mama Do"

-- Stefanie Heinzmann - "No One Can Change My Mind"

-- Matt & Kim - "Daylight"

-- Young Punx - "Juice and Gin"

Additional artists involved with The Sims 3 World Adventures will be revealed in the coming months.

The Sims are on the adventure of their lifetime in The Sims(TM) 3 World Adventures, the first expansion pack to the #1 best-selling PC and MAC game in June 2009**, The Sims 3. Players will guide their Sims to acclaimed fortune--or potential doom. Gamers will take their Sims to famous real-world inspired destinations to conquer challenges, find treasures, discover what's lurking in hidden caves, and more with the first ever adventure gameplay. From mastering martial arts in Shang Simla, China, discovering rich culture and famous landmarks on a romantic getaway to Champs Les Sims, France or exploring the depths of ancient tombs in Al Simhara, Egypt, Sims will learn new skills and chase down new personal opportunities, meet new Sims with unique personalities, share their culture and bring them home, discover new styles on their travels, and share everything they encounter on their adventures with the world through personal photographs, movies, and stories. Those who register their copy of the PC/Mac version of the game online will receive 1,000 SimPoints to be used in The Sims 3 Store***. Adventure is on the horizon -- what will the Sims discover?

The Sims 3 World Adventures Expansion Pack for the PC and Mac will ship to retailers worldwide the week of November 16, 2009. The Sims 3 World Adventures will also be available for feature phones, the iPhone(TM) and iPod touch(R) in early 2010 from EA Mobile(TM). These versions will have customized mobile gameplay features and music playlists which will be revealed in the coming months. For information on carrier availability and pricing for all EA Mobile games, please visit www.eamobile.com.

For more information about The Sims 3 World Adventures or The Sims 3, please visit www.TheSims3.com. Developed by The Sims Studio, The Sims 3 World Adventures has not yet been rated by the ESRB. To download artwork, please visit www.info.ea.com.

The Sims 3: World Adventures First Look - Ign.com

2009-08-19T09:19:00.000+02:00

It's sort of difficult to add whole new regions of the existing towns of Sunset Valley and Riverview since they're already so large, so the idea is to create places where your sims can travel to and visit for days or even weeks at a time. (Don't worry, because sims lifetimes are so limited, the designers are making it so your sims essentially don't age while on vacation.) They won't be able to build homes in these new areas (simified versions of Egypt, France, and China), but they will be able to pursue adventures that seem like a further evolution of the franchise. These adventures feature puzzle elements that, upon completion, unlock bigger adventures and more.

[Read the complete preview here]

New Pictures

2009-08-19T09:14:00.002+02:00

The Sims 3 World Adventures Impressions - Gamespot

2009-08-19T09:07:00.002+02:00

World Adventures will let you trot the globe to three different worldwide locations, either on a simple vacation (which you can take at any time if you've got the simoleons to afford a plane ticket) or as part of an "adventure" (which is an expanded version of the opportunity system that would randomly pop up at certain points in the careers of your sims). These adventures will have you go to one of these three nations to take on quests to explore and plunder trap-filled ruins on behalf of a greedy corporation, though once you've fully explored one locale's ruins, you can decide whether you prefer to side with the company (who would prefer to bulldoze them) or with the locals (who would prefer to keep their landmarks safe).

[Read the complete preview here]

The Sims 3 World Adventures trailer has been released!

2009-08-19T09:02:00.001+02:00

Eleanor Rigby - The Sims 3 Machinima by Mmyoko

2009-08-08T10:34:00.001+02:00

Coming soon! Mr. Cheesy’s Hair and Clothing SALE.

2009-08-08T10:25:00.000+02:00

Shop Mr. Cheesy’s Hair and Clothing SALE from Friday, 8/14 through Sunday, 8/16! Huge savings on select Hair and Clothing items.

[Source: TheSims3.com]

Exclusive New Sets at The Sims 3 Store

2009-08-08T10:11:00.004+02:00

Visit The Sims 3 Store to find a variety of exclusive new Sets! Redecorate your Sims bedrooms with style and a modern touch with the Ultra Lounge Bedroom Sets for Girls, Boys and Teens! Be sure to check out the Jet Set Clothing Sets! Whether for lounging glamorously by the pool, jetting off to exotic locations, or for a night out, this his and hers collections captivates.

* Ultra Lounge Youths Set:

* Jet Set:

* Castle:

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Game Update for: 1.4

2009-08-08T09:58:00.002+02:00

Complete list of changes:

* PC Only: Addressed an issue where a user was unable to uninstall The Sims™ 3 if the 1.3 update was interrupted.
* Mac Only: Fixed a problem that prevented players from installing custom content after installing the 1.3 update.
* After getting promoted in a job with a night shift the Sim will only receive the day off if their next shift starts within 8 hours.
* Exporting and Sharing a Level 10 Gardener Sim properly maintains their special abilities.
* Fixes to Story Progression. Babies will no longer be born to single parents. Player created or controlled households are now "protected" and will no longer be removed through "Story Progression." Warning: Story Progression will no longer remove previously player controlled Sims. Users who take control of too many Sims in the same game may experience poor performance as the neighborhood can become over populated.
* Switching between multiple saved outfits of the same type no longer has the potential to wipe out saved outfits.
* Waterlillies now have a smoother level of detail transition when zooming the camera.
* Camera memory hotkeys now properly remember floor level.
* Certain situations will now properly stop socialization and disallow asking other Sims to join.
* Bait picker for fishing has been improved.
* Sims no longer automatically exit the bathtub before receiving the “Bathe until Tranquil” moodlet.
* Sims can no longer interview non-playable ghosts.
* Addressed an issue where distant audio could occasionally be heard while the player is focused on a Sim is inside their own home.
* Changing jobs no longer fulfills the "Meet All Co-workers" Wish.
* Playable ghost teens and children are now properly assigned to a school.
* Custom paintings can now be properly placed above objects that are placed up against a wall and leave enough wall space.
* The "Call Over" Interaction is now available on seated Sims.
* Reduced the urge for neat Sims to put away fire pits.
* Neighbors will no longer gather to watch a burglar that hasn't yet stolen anything.
* The "Maywood Glen" community lot is now properly classified as a park.
* "Omni-Plant" opportunity has a higher chance of appearing.
* Painting valued painting wishes are easier to fulfill.
* Number of Books Read in the writing skill journal now counts number of books finished instead of the number of books started.
* Sims will no longer attempt to use laptops when they are ungreeted visitors.
* "Befriend All Co-workers" wish is no longer fulfilled by switching to a job with no coworkers.
* Fixed a problem where the incorrect clothing was displayed on a Sim in the game launcher icon.
* Harvestables on harvest ready plants will not get occasionally lost during import/export.
* Opportunity to improve athletic skill will no longer appear when athletic skill is full.
* "Play a Game with Sim" wish now fulfills from "Playing Foosball."
* Sims will now get the "Witnessed Divorce" moodlet from watching other married Sims break up.
* Stocked ponds are properly preserved when shared.
* Sims will no longer occasionally fail to walk a path involving four or more flights of stairs.
* A player is now able to complete the "Upgrade Audio Lite by LoFi" Wish.
* Prevented a game freeze that occurred when placing a lot while in "Cameraman Mode."
* Sims no longer have the rare chance of getting permanently stuck while socializing.
* Non-player Sim autonomy now runs more quickly for Sims on screen and nearby (neighbors won't spend time standing in their front yards or not moving on community lots)
* Fixed a rare case in which the skewer thumbnail of an NPC could disappear during a private wedding.
* "Become Enemies with Child" wish no longer appears.
* "Quit Job" wish will now fulfill if Sim gets a new job and is forced to quit the old one.
* Stairs are no longer allowed to be deleted while in use.
* Prevented a case where toddlers were allowed to escape a lot and wander freely.
* Fixed a rare case where a toddler's teddy bear could get permanently stuck in their inventory.
* "Clean High Chair" wish properly fulfills.
* "SimLife Goggles" are no longer duplicated after moving.
* The "Raid Criminals" interaction can now be properly resumed after saving and loading while it is in progress.
* Sims will no longer get a wish to ask their husband to be their boyfriend.
* Fix for a possible crash when disconnecting headphones during gameplay.
* Relationships are properly preserved when merging a newly created household into an existing household.
* "Play with Toy" wish properly fulfills when a child Sim plays with the teddy bear.
* Fixed an error that occurred when deleting an outfit preset that a Sim was wearing.
* Lot pricing was corrected in edit town. The price of trees and bushes is now properly accounted for. Various community lot objects no longer provide negative value to a lot.
* "Woohoo" interaction now counts as a romantic interaction.
* Wish to "See Child Become a Genius" now auto cancels once it is no longer possible to fulfill.
* Sheet music can no longer be chosen from the bookshelf interactions. This prevents a situation in which Sims could no longer learn particular songs.
* Fixes a rare case where a revived ghost could become stuck in the science lab if a household was split.
* "Eat Food at Park" wish now fulfills properly.
* Parents will no longer wish to "See Sim Get Married" for their already married children.
* Kleptomaniac Sims can no longer return items currently being used by other Sims.
* Fixes a rare case in which a blank thumbnail could appear in the family inventory after a Sim had been kicked out.
* Fixes a rare case in which a blank thumbnail could appear in the family inventory after a Kleptomaniac Sim swiped something.
* ATI video driver's "Adaptive Aantialiasing" option conflicts with ingame "Edge Smoothing." The combination causes visual corruption. A note has been added to the readme encouraging players not to enable these two features at the same time.
* Medium-sized, high quality in-game videos can now be successfully uploaded via the launcher.
* Fixed a case where "Breakup with Sim" wasn't correctly fulfilling.
* Fix for a case where rapidly clicking on Sim traits could crash the game.
* Toddler's body no longer deforms when "Watching TV" after "Learning to Talk."
* Sims can now use "Charming Introduction" on Sims invited over to a home lot.
* Gardening skill gain no longer continues if gardening channel viewing is interrupted.
* Child Sims no longer deform after "Watching a Concert."
* Eating specific prepared meals no longer has an impact on an unborn baby's gender.
* Fixed a hang that could occur when moving away from a house with harvestable plants growing on it.
* Merge household bed and fridge requirements are no longer enforced on lots that are being abandoned.
* Fixed a problem, where through specific timing, objects could become unusable if the game is saved while they are being placed in a Sim's inventory.
* The Sims 3 is now properly categorized as a game in the Windows Vista Games Explorer.
* A selected object in buy or build mode now stays attached to the cursor as the player scrolls the camera with the direction keys.
* Fences no longer occlude sound.
* Terrain enclosed by walls and a roof is now properly lit.
* Puddles will properly conform to uneven terrain.
* Prevented problematic routing behavior that occurs when replacing an object mid route.
* Corrected various grammar and spelling mistakes.
* Deleted screenshots no longer remain listed in the launcher.
* "Dance Together" and "Tutor Sim in Skill…" no longer appear on Sims at inappropriate times.
* "Non-hydrophobic" Sims will no longer panic while swimming.
* The Magic Gnome text notification now displays the proper icon.
* Exposed floor tile edges have changed in color.
* Fixed a problem where counters would occasionally turn black while selecting certain objects in build mode.
* Fixed a rare instance where at map level the bulldozer tool could leave a blue hole in the ground.
* The option to "Adjust Tree Detail" now properly displays a "Restart Required" message.
* "Spying on the Cuisine" opportunity can now be fulfilled by selecting to "Eat Outside" at the Bistro.
* Refreshing doors no longer causes them to lose their front door status.
* A child that ages to a teen will no longer receive the wish to "Talk about New Job."
* "View" interaction will not be duplicated when placing objects on the "Nearly Perfect Pedestal."
* Up arrow can now be used when placing a house from the library.
* A faint line is no longer visible on the heads of babies.
* Fish are no longer duplicated in the fridge when moving homes.
* All dfc-gorilla (update installer) messages will now appear properly translated.
* Fix for a rare case in which a Sim could be teleported to an invalid location if the game was reloaded while they were "Changing Outfit."
* Fixed a problem where bulldozed lots were not being properly lit at map level.
* Sims who run into obstacles placed directly in front of them, no longer get stuck.
* Babies and Toddlers will no longer be left alone if the household is split up or merged through edit town, a babysitter will be called.
* Fixed a rare case in which a Sim remains on the wrong lot after moving.
* Guitar Skill level 10 text notification no longer mentions purchasing new songs from the bookstore.
* Fixed a rare case where the social worker's vehicle could be left behind on a lot.
* Korean GRB rating is now available to use in Windows Parental Controls.
* The Sims 3 now supports more than 2000 concurrent save games.
* Custom Music will no longer be assigned as a favorite randomly.
* Fixed a rare case where "Accept" would be unavailable in Create-A-Sim after undoing while accepting a Sim from "Play with Genetics."
* Children Sims will no longer attempt to knock over blocks at the same time.
* Fixed child animation when putting away the birthday cake.
* Fish no longer appear on dry ground of lots that have been coverted to residential lots .
* Bulldozing a lot with collectable spawners no longer destroys the spawners.
* A family with only a toddler is no longer allowed to be saved to the library.
* Placing small objects on the front slot of the dresser will no longer block the dresser from being used.
* Sims no longer fail to view decorative objects placed on a fireplace mantle.
* Sims now build relationship through the "Tutor" interaction.
* Fixed a minor error that occurred while loading a game where the dresser was in use.
* Fix for misaligned water effects on a particular sink.
* "Likes Work" moodlet is now properly removed if "Workaholic" trait is changed or removed.
* Purchasing "SimLife Goggles" now fulfills the "Buy Video Game" wish.
* Canceling the installation of a queue of downloaded items now works properly.
* "Collection Helper" is properly displayed when picked up in buy mode.
* Fixes some cases of objects being improperly assigned type in the launcher.
* The player can no longer delete a tombstone that is being used by a ghost.
* Fixed a rare routing failure that could happen when attempting to route to an enclosed object on an inactive floor.
* Televisions no longer play video after they are burned or broken.
* Under certain circumstances, Sims will now choose smarter lot entry locations.
* "Amateur Olympics" Opportunity notification now mentions event times.
* Sims can no longer "Try for Baby" with the Grim Reaper.
* Fixed a rare case where a Sim could start painting but the canvas was not visible.
* Fixed a rare case where the police cruiser could be left in front of the police station.
* "Sabotage" interaction is now available under more conditions.
* Deeds will now stack in the inventory and a "Collect All" interaction can be used on them.
* The Riverview download now displays the proper size for the entire duration of the download.
* Fix for children playing improper animations when trying to cook.
* Fixed an error that occurred when removing the moodlet manager from the inventory of a Sim that was in the process of using the moodlet manager.
* "Upgrade Object" wish correctly filters out gates.
* Various premade Sims downloaded from the exchange are now sorting into the correct age catagory.
* Buildings will keep the appropriate lights when zooming in and out at nighttime.
* Fixed a very slow memory leak triggered by the "Fertilize" interaction.
* Adding support for the NVIDIA Ion.
* Roofing is now visible on low end Intel video cards.
* Replaced a duplicate hat style for elder females.
* Game speed no longer affects the playback of audio stings.
* NPC's automobiles are no longer purged from inventory.
* Added support for the NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250.
* Mac Only: Custom Content, Screenshots or video added to Documents/User/Electronic Arts/The Sims 3/… while the game is running will now show up in the Launcher.
* Mac Only: The Mac version of The Sims 3 now supports Shader Model 3.0 graphics features. (excluding the NVIDIA GeForce 7300GT and 7600GT cards)
* Mac Only: The high lighting quality Sim shader has been enabled in Create-A-Sim.
* Mac Only: Added a warning message upon attempting to delete a downloaded world (Riverview) that associated save files will be lost.
* Mac Only: Enabled depth texture support (shadows) on all supported video cards.
* Mac Only: The user interface is no longer improperly displayed in ingame reflections.

[Source: Thesims3.com]

Images and information about the first expansion of The Sims 3! - Jeuxvideo.com

2009-08-03T20:45:00.002+02:00

Electronic Arts s'est décidé à officialiser l'extension Les Sims 3 : Destination Aventure, dont l'existence avait été dévoilée le mois dernier par un planning de l'éditeur. Elle proposera trois lieux plus ou moins exotiques pour les Sims aventuriers : la Chine, Paris et l'Égypte. Des défis et des trésors les y attendront. Ce disque additionnel sortira le 19 novembre et contiendra également 1 000 SimPoints à utiliser dans la boutique en ligne du jeu, où du contenu exclusif à l'extension sera d'ailleurs proposé. Lyndsay Pearson, la productrice de Destination Aventure, répond ci-dessous à toutes nos interrogations sur le titre.

* Pourquoi avoir choisi la Chine, l'Egypte et Paris plutôt que d'autres lieux ?
- Lyndsay Pearson:Selon nous, chacun de ces endroits offre non seulement un environnement fantastique visuellement très différent des quartiers déjà disponibles dans Les Sims 3, mais aussi beaucoup d'activités intéressantes. Chaque lieu possède une dimension de mystère et de découverte essentielle à l'aventure. Explorer des catacombes françaises ou un tombeau égyptien comporte de nombreux éléments susceptibles de plaire à nos fans mais aussi à l'équipe de développement.

* Comment accèdera-t-on aux trois environnements proposés ?
- Lyndsay Pearson :Les Sims pourront se rendre dans ces trois endroits en utilisant un téléphone ou un ordinateur pour réserver un voyage. Les joueurs pourront également modifier ces villes (tout comme ils peuvent modifier Sunset Valley) grâce au menu Modifier du jeu.

* Pourra-t-on y acheter une résidence secondaire ?
- Lyndsay Pearson :Même si vos Sims ne pourront pas vivre de façon permanente dans ces nouvelles destinations, ils pourront y posséder une ou plusieurs propriétés. Après avoir acheté une résidence secondaire en Egypte ou en Chine, ils auront le choix entre séjourner dans cette résidence ou aller dans le "camp de base" local dès qu'ils souhaiteront aller dans le pays en question.

* Pourra-t-on visiter les monuments célèbres (tour Eiffel, pyramides, Grande Muraille...) ?
- Lyndsay Pearson :Nous sommes vraiment ravis de proposer des endroits inspirés du monde réel dans Les Sims 3 Destination Aventure. Cependant, nous nous les sommes appropriés en les "Simifiant". Les joueurs reconnaîtront néanmoins des lieux célèbres et historiques dans chacun des pays. Vous pouvez déjà apercevoir les Grandes Pyramides dans les images que nous avons diffusées. Au cours des prochains mois, nous donnerons plus de détails sur les autres lieux réputés que vous pourrez découvrir.

* Pourra-t-on voir l'intérieur de tous les bâtiments contrairement aux Sims 3 ?
- Lyndsay Pearson :Nous allons ajouter de nombreux nouveaux lieux et bâtiments dans Les Sims 3 Destination Aventure. Ces bâtiments comportent un aspect extérieur complexe et visuellement époustouflant ainsi que des pièces et zones aménagées à l'intérieur. Par exemple, nous avons créé un sphinx que vous pourrez d'abord admirer de l'extérieur. Vous pourrez ensuite ouvrir une porte spéciale pour y entrer et découvrir ce qui s'y cache !

* De quelle nature seront les trésors à découvrir ?
- Lyndsay Pearson :Vos Sims pourront découvrir beaucoup de reliques, pièces et objets spéciaux. Les reliques pourront être collectionnées, exposées ou vendues contre de l'argent ! Chaque endroit aura ses propres reliques spécifiques ainsi que de nombreuses reliques communes que vous pourrez trouver partout.

* Quels moyens seront mis à la disposition du joueur pour chercher les trésors ?
- Lyndsay Pearson :Dans les tombeaux, les joueurs pourront chercher des trésors en enlevant des tas de décombres, en ouvrant des coffres à trésor ou en examinant des statues et portes secrètes pour débloquer de nouvelles pièces. En dehors des tombeaux, il faudra envoyer vos Sims explorer les lieux pour trouver les reliques et objets à collectionner disponibles.

* A quoi serviront les nouvelles compétences ?
- Lyndsay Pearson :Les nouvelles compétences vous serviront dans les aventures et tâches proposées aux joueurs. Elles pourront vous aider à terminer une histoire qui débloquera une nouvelle clé pour une porte spéciale, ou qui vous offrira en récompense une pièce ancienne pour acheter quelque chose à vos Sims. Enfin, les compétences offriront du nouveau gameplay et des objets supplémentaires à débloquer au fur et à mesure de votre progression.

* Y aura-t-il de nouveaux traits de caractère ?
- Lyndsay Pearson :Nous allons ajouter quelques traits spécifiques en rapport avec l'aventure. Plus de détails seront bientôt disponibles ; restez attentifs !

[Source: Jeuxvideo.com]

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2009-08-03T20:40:00.001+02:00

The Sims 3 World Adventures

2009-08-03T20:33:00.005+02:00

REDWOOD CITY, Calif., August 3, 2009 – The Sims are off on an adventure to famous destinations around the world! The EA Play Label of Electronic Arts Inc. (NASDAQ: ERTS) today announced that The Sims™ 3 World Adventures, the first expansion pack* to the #1 best-selling PC and MAC game in June 2009**, The Sims 3, is in development and will ship to retailers worldwide the week of November 16, 2009.

“We’re thrilled with the global success of The Sims 3 over these last few months and are looking forward to expanding on the gameplay experience with one of the most robust expansion packs to The Sims yet,” said Scott Evans, General Manager of The Sims at EA. “Players will be able to take their Sims on the adventure of a lifetime and explore lands outside of Sunset Valley and Riverview, pursue thrilling new life destinies in locations around the world inspired by famous destinations, and immerse themselves in the open-ended gameplay where they’ll discover new cities in China, France and Egypt and share new stories.”

Players can take their Sims on new journeys to famous real-world inspired destinations around the globe for the first time ever and seek out new adventures. While exploring the landmarks of an exotic city, there is no telling what the Sims will find. From mastering martial arts in Shang Simla, China, discovering rich culture and famous landmarks on a romantic getaway to Champs Les Sims, France or exploring the depths of ancient tombs in Al Simhara, Egypt, players can take their Sims on a journey that will change their Sims’ lives. Players can accept challenges to search for secret treasures, learn new skills and chase down new personal opportunities, meet new Sims with unique personalities, share their culture and bring them home, discover new styles on their travels, and share everything they encounter on their adventures with the world through personal photographs, movies, and stories. Additionally, players will receive 1,000 SimPoints to be used online in The Sims 3 Store*** for the PC/MAC versions of the game. Exclusive online content, available only for the expansion pack at launch, will be revealed soon.

The Sims 3 World Adventures will also be available for feature phones, the iPhone™ and iPod touch® in early 2010 from EA Mobile™. These versions will have customized mobile gameplay features which will be revealed in the coming months. For information on carrier availability and pricing for all EA Mobile games, please visit www.eamobile.com.

For more information about The Sims 3 World Adventures or The Sims 3, please visit www.TheSims3.com. Developed by The Sims Studio, The Sims 3 World Adventures has not yet been rated by PEGi. To download artwork, please visit www.electronicarts.co.uk/press

*Requires The Sims 3 for PC/MAC to play.
**According to NPD data.
**INTERNET CONNECTION REQUIRED, see product pack or digital distribution rules for details

Patch - Latest update for: 1.3

2009-07-28T22:17:00.000+02:00

Complete list of changes:

* After getting promoted in a job with a night shift the Sim will only receive the day off if their next shift starts within 8 hours.
* Exporting and Sharing a Level 10 Gardener Sim properly maintains their special abilities.
* Fixes to Story Progression. Babies will no longer be born to single parents. Player created or controlled households are now "protected" and will no longer be removed through "Story Progression." Warning: Story Progression will no longer remove previously player controlled Sims. Users who take control of too many Sims in the same game may experience poor performance as the neighborhood can become over populated.
* Switching between multiple saved outfits of the same type no longer has the potential to wipe out saved outfits.
* Waterlillies now have a smoother level of detail transition when zooming the camera.
* Camera memory hotkeys now properly remember floor level.
* Certain situations will now properly stop socialization and disallow asking other Sims to join.
* Bait picker for fishing has been improved.
* Sims no longer automatically exit the bathtub before receiving the “Bathe until Tranquil” moodlet.
* Sims can no longer interview non-playable ghosts.
* Addressed an issue where distant audio could occasionally be heard while the player is focused on a Sim is inside their own home.
* Changing jobs no longer fulfills the "Meet All Co-workers" Wish.
* Playable ghost teens and children are now properly assigned to a school.
* Custom paintings can now be properly placed above objects that are placed up against a wall and leave enough wall space.
* The "Call Over" Interaction is now available on seated Sims.
* Reduced the urge for neat Sims to put away fire pits.
* Neighbors will no longer gather to watch a burglar that hasn't yet stolen anything.
* The "Maywood Glen" community lot is now properly classified as a park.
* "Omni-Plant" opportunity has a higher chance of appearing.
* Painting valued painting wishes are easier to fulfill.
* Number of Books Read in the writing skill journal now counts number of books finished instead of the number of books started.
* Sims will no longer attempt to use laptops when they are ungreeted visitors.
* "Befriend All Co-workers" wish is no longer fulfilled by switching to a job with no coworkers.
* Fixed a problem where the incorrect clothing was displayed on a Sim in the game launcher icon.
* Harvestables on harvest ready plants will not get occasionally lost during import/export.
* Opportunity to improve athletic skill will no longer appear when athletic skill is full.
* "Play a Game with Sim" wish now fulfills from "Playing Foosball."
* Sims will now get the "Witnessed Divorce" moodlet from watching other married Sims break up.
* Stocked ponds are properly preserved when shared.
* Sims will no longer occasionally fail to walk a path involving four or more flights of stairs.
* A player is now able to complete the "Upgrade Audio Lite by LoFi" Wish.
* Prevented a game freeze that occurred when placing a lot while in "Cameraman Mode."
* Sims no longer have the rare chance of getting permanently stuck while socializing.
* Non-player Sim autonomy now runs more quickly for Sims on screen and nearby (neighbors won't spend time standing in their front yards or not moving on community lots)
* Fixed a rare case in which the skewer thumbnail of an NPC could disappear during a private wedding.
* "Become Enemies with Child" wish no longer appears.
* "Quit Job" wish will now fulfill if Sim gets a new job and is forced to quit the old one.
* Stairs are no longer allowed to be deleted while in use.
* Prevented a case where toddlers were allowed to escape a lot and wander freely.
* Fixed a rare case where a toddler's teddy bear could get permanently stuck in their inventory.
* "Clean High Chair" wish properly fulfills.
* "SimLife Goggles" are no longer duplicated after moving.
* The "Raid Criminals" interaction can now be properly resumed after saving and loading while it is in progress.
* Sims will no longer get a wish to ask their husband to be their boyfriend.
* Fix for a possible crash when disconnecting headphones during gameplay.
* Relationships are properly preserved when merging a newly created household into an existing household.
* "Play with Toy" wish properly fulfills when a child Sim plays with the teddy bear.
* Fixed an error that occurred when deleting an outfit preset that a Sim was wearing.
* Lot pricing was corrected in edit town. The price of trees and bushes is now properly accounted for. Various community lot objects no longer provide negative value to a lot.
* "Woohoo" interaction now counts as a romantic interaction.
* Wish to "See Child Become a Genius" now auto cancels once it is no longer possible to fulfill.
* Sheet music can no longer be chosen from the bookshelf interactions. This prevents a situation in which Sims could no longer learn particular songs.
* Fixes a rare case where a revived ghost could become stuck in the science lab if a household was split.
* "Eat Food at Park" wish now fulfills properly.
* Parents will no longer wish to "See Sim Get Married" for their already married children.
* Kleptomaniac Sims can no longer return items currently being used by other Sims.
* Fixes a rare case in which a blank thumbnail could appear in the family inventory after a Sim had been kicked out.
* Fixes a rare case in which a blank thumbnail could appear in the family inventory after a Kleptomaniac Sim swiped something.
* ATI video driver's "Adaptive Aantialiasing" option conflicts with ingame "Edge Smoothing." The combination causes visual corruption. A note has been added to the readme encouraging players not to enable these two features at the same time.
* Medium-sized, high quality in-game videos can now be successfully uploaded via the launcher.
* Fixed a case where "Breakup with Sim" wasn't correctly fulfilling.
* Fix for a case where rapidly clicking on Sim traits could crash the game.
* Toddler's body no longer deforms when "Watching TV" after "Learning to Talk."
* Sims can now use "Charming Introduction" on Sims invited over to a home lot.
* Gardening skill gain no longer continues if gardening channel viewing is interrupted.
* Child Sims no longer deform after "Watching a Concert."
* Eating specific prepared meals no longer has an impact on an unborn baby's gender.
* Fixed a hang that could occur when moving away from a house with harvestable plants growing on it.
* Merge household bed and fridge requirements are no longer enforced on lots that are being abandoned.
* Fixed a problem, where through specific timing, objects could become unusable if the game is saved while they are being placed in a Sim's inventory.
* The Sims 3 is now properly categorized as a game in the Windows Vista Games Explorer.
* A selected object in buy or build mode now stays attached to the cursor as the player scrolls the camera with the direction keys.
* Fences no longer occlude sound.
* Terrain enclosed by walls and a roof is now properly lit.
* Puddles will properly conform to uneven terrain.
* Prevented problematic routing behavior that occurs when replacing an object mid route.
* Corrected various grammar and spelling mistakes.
* Deleted screenshots no longer remain listed in the launcher.
* "Dance Together" and "Tutor Sim in Skill…" no longer appear on Sims at inappropriate times.
* "Non-hydrophobic" Sims will no longer panic while swimming.
* The Magic Gnome text notification now displays the proper icon.
* Exposed floor tile edges have changed in color.
* Fixed a problem where counters would occasionally turn black while selecting certain objects in build mode.
* Fixed a rare instance where at map level the bulldozer tool could leave a blue hole in the ground.
* The option to "Adjust Tree Detail" now properly displays a "Restart Required" message.
* "Spying on the Cuisine" opportunity can now be fulfilled by selecting to "Eat Outside" at the Bistro.
* Refreshing doors no longer causes them to lose their front door status.
* A child that ages to a teen will no longer receive the wish to "Talk about New Job."
* "View" interaction will not be duplicated when placing objects on the "Nearly Perfect Pedestal."
* Up arrow can now be used when placing a house from the library.
* A faint line is no longer visible on the heads of babies.
* Fish are no longer duplicated in the fridge when moving homes.
* All dfc-gorilla (update installer) messages will now appear properly translated.
* Fix for a rare case in which a Sim could be teleported to an invalid location if the game was reloaded while they were "Changing Outfit."
* Fixed a problem where bulldozed lots were not being properly lit at map level.
* Sims who run into obstacles placed directly in front of them, no longer get stuck.
* Babies and Toddlers will no longer be left alone if the household is split up or merged through edit town, a babysitter will be called.
* Fixed a rare case in which a Sim remains on the wrong lot after moving.
* Guitar Skill level 10 text notification no longer mentions purchasing new songs from the bookstore.
* Fixed a rare case where the social worker's vehicle could be left behind on a lot.
* Korean GRB rating is now available to use in Windows Parental Controls.
* The Sims 3 now supports more than 2000 concurrent save games.
* Custom Music will no longer be assigned as a favorite randomly.
* Fixed a rare case where "Accept" would be unavailable in Create-A-Sim after undoing while accepting a Sim from "Play with Genetics."
* Children Sims will no longer attempt to knock over blocks at the same time.
* Fixed child animation when putting away the birthday cake.
* Fish no longer appear on dry ground of lots that have been coverted to residential lots .
* Bulldozing a lot with collectable spawners no longer destroys the spawners.
* A family with only a toddler is no longer allowed to be saved to the library.
* Placing small objects on the front slot of the dresser will no longer block the dresser from being used.
* Sims no longer fail to view decorative objects placed on a fireplace mantle.
* Sims now build relationship through the "Tutor" interaction.
* Fixed a minor error that occurred while loading a game where the dresser was in use.
* Fix for misaligned water effects on a particular sink.
* "Likes Work" moodlet is now properly removed if "Workaholic" trait is changed or removed.
* Purchasing "SimLife Goggles" now fulfills the "Buy Video Game" wish.
* Canceling the installation of a queue of downloaded items now works properly.
* "Collection Helper" is properly displayed when picked up in buy mode.
* Fixes some cases of objects being improperly assigned type in the launcher.
* The player can no longer delete a tombstone that is being used by a ghost.
* Fixed a rare routing failure that could happen when attempting to route to an enclosed object on an inactive floor.
* Televisions no longer play video after they are burned or broken.
* Under certain circumstances, Sims will now choose smarter lot entry locations.
* "Amateur Olympics" Opportunity notification now mentions event times.
* Sims can no longer "Try for Baby" with the Grim Reaper.
* Fixed a rare case where a Sim could start painting but the canvas was not visible.
* Fixed a rare case where the police cruiser could be left in front of the police station.
* "Sabotage" interaction is now available under more conditions.
* Deeds will now stack in the inventory and a "Collect All" interaction can be used on them.
* The Riverview download now displays the proper size for the entire duration of the download.
* Fix for children playing improper animations when trying to cook.
* Fixed an error that occurred when removing the moodlet manager from the inventory of a Sim that was in the process of using the moodlet manager.
* "Upgrade Object" wish correctly filters out gates.
* Various premade Sims downloaded from the exchange are now sorting into the correct age catagory.
* Buildings will keep the appropriate lights when zooming in and out at nighttime.
* Fixed a very slow memory leak triggered by the "Fertilize" interaction.
* Adding support for the NVIDIA Ion.
* Roofing is now visible on low end Intel video cards.
* Replaced a duplicate hat style for elder females.
* Game speed no longer affects the playback of audio stings.
* NPC's automobiles are no longer purged from inventory.
* Added support for the NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250.
* Mac Only: Custom Content, Screenshots or video added to Documents/User/Electronic Arts/The Sims 3/… while the game is running will now show up in the Launcher.
* Mac Only: The Mac version of The Sims 3 now supports Shader Model 3.0 graphics features. (excluding the NVIDIA GeForce 7300GT and 7600GT cards)
* Mac Only: The high lighting quality Sim shader has been enabled in Create-A-Sim.
* Mac Only: Added a warning message upon attempting to delete a downloaded world (Riverview) that associated save files will be lost.
* Mac Only: Enabled depth texture support (shadows) on all supported video cards.
* Mac Only: The user interface is no longer improperly displayed in ingame reflections.

[Source: Thesims3.com]

Dress Your Sims in JCP Teen Inspired Outfits! (sims store)

2009-07-26T10:35:00.004+02:00

Get schooled in style at JCP Teen where you'll find an amazing selection of cool denim
and the latest trends from your favorite brands, like Decree, ARIZONA®, Third Rail™
and more. Take your Sims back to school in the hottest fashions and be the talk of the
hallways. Download JCP Teen inspired outfits for your Sims now!

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Ps. If you’re from a country rather than the US, you will need to change your country to English --> US in order to download these.

The Sims 3 update on its way!

2009-07-26T10:32:00.003+02:00

Hello Sims Fans! We wanted to give you a heads up that we are hard at work on giving you an update to The Sims 3 in the coming weeks that will address some of the things you’ve been asking for and discussing on the forums.

We thank you for your passion for The Sims 3. Your feedback is welcomed and invaluable to us, so keep it coming!

[Source: Thesims3.com]

A little info on Story Progression

2009-07-23T09:40:00.002+02:00

POSTED ON
20/07/09 22:35

Hello Simmers!

You’ve had some questions regarding story progression in The Sims 3 and how it works, so we’re here to shed some light on some of the inner workings of this feature.

Story progression has two main goals in The Sims 3.

· Maintain town stability. (primary goal)

· Make the neighboring Sims feel as if they have their own stories and are growing in the your world. (secondary goal)

What does “maintain town stability” actually mean? One of the new features in The Sims 3 is the open neighborhood. Instead of having multiple “save games” in roughly the same neighborhood, the entire neighborhood is the game, and everything progresses at the same time. However, there are many new challenges that we needed to overcome if those stories were to be believable. All of your Sims neighbors would die without reproducing, causing an empty world, or there wouldn’t be enough children or single adults for your Sims to interact with. These are gameplay reasons for the game attempting to manage the other Sims in the neighborhood. Another challenge we took into consideration was game performance. Our team has standards for what the average player would experience in this open neighborhood. If there are too many Sims in the world, overall performance of the game would decline for several game machines. Therefore, the game attempts to manage the population in such a way to provide both a good performance for you as well as have enough interesting Sims for your Sims to interact with.

After all of that is taken care of, the game then tries to make the Sims more realistic. It gives Sims interesting jobs, moves them around based on relationships (or randomly sometimes to stir things up), make them gain weight or become thinner. These types of actions and the concept of story making always takes a backseat to providing your Sim family with the ideal backdrop for gameplay.

A couple of common questions:

1) Why did some Sims disappear completely from my game?

If you move your created families of additional Sims into your neighborhoods the population increase may start to cause an overload. When overpopulation starts to become a challenge, some households may completely leave a world. Currently the game preserves Households that your Active Household knows (i.e. has relationships with).

2) Why when I change households do some Sims get moved around in career levels?

Story progression does occasionally have Sims get jobs, promoted/demoted, fired, quit, and retire, but this should be done in a more normal and slow fashion. The larger corrections you see are due to career fixing. Careers are more robust in The Sims 3 and require a boss and sometimes co-workers, so when your Sim gets a job it tries to find real living Sims in the world to promote or it might assign a neighbor Sim living in the world to be that Sim’s boss. The game will try to find a Sim in the career and promote them, but if there aren’t any available, it will pick a random Sim to assign to that career.

3) Can you explain the aging and story progression checkbox options?

This was done to give a little more freedom to you to choose how your game functions. The aging check affects ALL Sims including your Sims and neighborhood Sims. Story progression will still try to make interesting changes to the town makeup and management; it just doesn’t have to worry about most Sims dying of old age anymore. If you continue to move in more Sims, the game will grow concerned about overpopulation as usual. When story progression is turned off, the game will not try to cover the management and tweaking actions that occur outside of normal gameplay. Neighboring Sims will still visit community lots, go to their jobs, and visit your Sims. They just won’t move in or out, or change jobs (except if careers need to be fixed for new Sims) or gain weight. If you leave aging on and story progression off, eventually your Sim’s world will be empty of neighboring Sims. Careers will still create “townies” (Sims that “live” in the world, but don’t live in a house) to fix Careers, but they will never move in.

In future updates we will be improving the system to take into account your feedback and make the system more robust. Keep an eye out!

Thanks

SimGuruLyndsay
The Sims 3 Development Team

[Source: SimGuruLyndsay's page]

Are you happy with The Sims 3 so far? (Results)

2009-07-22T17:13:00.002+02:00

TSR Tool: Made Of Evil Spyware And Lose!

2009-07-22T10:38:00.002+02:00

We bring you the shocking news of the latest TSR atrocity: SPYWARE AND VIRII!

Observe that it is INSTALLING AN EVIL DLL that will BOOT AT STARTUP. What could it be? A keylogger? Some other form of evil spyware? Let's not forget what happened to Buggybooz. Never forget! Never forgive!

Also, it is phoning home, spying on your activities!
(info by J.M. Pescado)

Read more here.

Truly custom hair! - modthesims

2009-07-22T10:30:00.004+02:00

Nouk Sport Hair
(Most Ages, Both Genders, True Custom!)
by HystericalParoxysm.

Download here .

Cherub Curly Hair
(All Ages, Both Genders, True Custom!)
by HystericalParoxysm.

Download here .

TSR Workshop public beta

2009-07-22T10:23:00.001+02:00

A public beta of TSR Workshop has been released!
TSR Workshop v0.5.9.0 Specification

For those technically minded CC creators, here is the current status of the TSR Workshop for each content type. You should be sure to read the EULA before using the TSR Workshop to create your own Custom Content.

Clothing: Full support for all clothing types. New meshes are currently limited (see below). This is a work in progress.

Makeup: Nearly full support. Eyebrows can not be recolored in game as of yet.

Hair: Partial support, some items can not be recolored in game yet. New meshes are currently limited (see below). This is a work in progress.

Accessories: Nearly full support. A few items can not be recolored in game. New meshes are currently limited (see below). This is a work in progress.

Complates: Partial support for changing the different steps in the texture generation process (type, alphablending, colors).

Textures: Full support for changing all properties (rgbmask, specular mask, overlay, multiplier etc.) plus Export of all textures and Import of DDS files.

Meshes: Partial support of export/import of OBJ-files (wavefront format). Mesh vertices may be replaced IF the number of vertices is the same. Bone assignments may not be changed. Fully automated process with a live 3D preview.

Patterns: Possible to create/upload new patterns. You may also use existing EA patterns by using our patterns browser.

Variations: Possible to add new and delete existing variations to a creation. This makes it possible to include several versions of the same file in one Sims3pack file.

Export: To sims3pack with auto-generated thumbnails or custom thumbnails.

Utilities:

* Being project based you can start by cloning existing game content or by creating 'from scratch'
* Project/package contents may be changed by using "Edit->Project contents"
* Smooth upload of files to TSR using the file storage option

[Source: thesimsresource.com]

Sunset Valley WG – The Garden Gnome Conspiracy

2009-07-20T08:44:00.004+02:00

Do You Like Waffles?

2009-07-20T08:41:00.001+02:00

The Sims 3 - Vote for Your Favorite Theme Pack

2009-07-20T08:39:00.000+02:00

vote here.

Nightlight's Eyes - Default replacement

2009-07-14T19:57:00.005+02:00

Hi Simmers,
I'm proud to present a default replacement for the original eyes that came with The Sims 3.
Hope you all enjoy! :)

Important: After installing - for see them on your Sims - delete the simCompositorCache.package from My Documents\Electronic Arts\The Sims 3.

Download it here.

Cute V Neck Dress / Frock - Modthesims

2009-07-14T19:48:00.004+02:00

This is a long frock for young adults and adults, available under everyday, this is a full body outfit.

Download it here.

The Fray - You Found Me - Sims 3 Machinima

2009-07-14T19:47:00.002+02:00

Sims 3-Inside The Hidden Buildings

2009-07-06T09:59:00.000+02:00

The Sims 3 Horror Parody Video

2009-07-04T16:12:00.002+02:00

New Ultra Lounge Sets at The Sims 3 Store

2009-07-04T16:10:00.003+02:00

Chic and sleek but always keeping comfort in mind, the Ultra Lounge Sets update the jet set 70’s look for today. Strong lines, curves, and an eclectic mix of metals and woods are the hallmarks of this daring design.

Start Shopping Today!

[Source: Thesims3.com]

Rumors - First expansion pack

2009-07-04T16:06:00.001+02:00

The first Sims 3 expansion pack - The Sims 3: Destination Aventure- will be here in November.

A title that leaves little doubt about the contents of the first additional disk, but still expect some details of key stakeholders to learn more. Meanwhile, divaguons on and extrapolate what will happen in this Destination Adventure. Of course, the extension will make the beautiful exotic travel history of sims away tired of their new city. But it is also an opportunity to engage in other activities, with real chunks of gameplay in it? A sort of The Sims 2: Naufragés that would bring a breath of freshness and interest to the series? To check this fall at the output of this additional content eagerly awaited by many fans of the series.

[Source: simprograms]

Interview: EA's Media Play - IndustryGamers

2009-07-02T08:33:00.002+02:00

IndustryGamers recently met for lunch in New York City with EA's Elizabeth Harz, Senior Vice president of Global Media Sales. Not only did she give us the scoop on EA's major Dr Pepper marketing partnership, but more importantly she filled us in on how EA is pushing itself as a media company, much like a Yahoo or AOL. In fact, Harz came over to EA from Yahoo to aid the company in this transformation.

[...] Another recent example of EA's marketing approach under Harz's leadership was the Toyota Prius in Sims 3. Those of you who attended E3 may have noticed the Sims 3 branded Prius parked inside South Hall. The partnership with Toyota enabled Sims 3 players to download a Prius in the game, which she said got a very positive reaction. EA also worked with McDonald's on the fast food chain's new McCafe drinks. EA leveraged its Pogo casual games portal to have McDonald's offer triple token Tuesdays during every Tuesday in May, so players were able to get three times the benefits but awareness for McCafe was also raised. “So wherever we do these executions, whether in-game, around-game or online, it's really about bringing added value,” Harz emphasized again. “We're working with partners to make sure they understand gameplay so that when we do something, it's actually valuable.”

Read the complete interview here.

Metro Station - Tell Me What To Do

2009-07-02T08:31:00.000+02:00

Default Replacement Skintone - club_crimsyn

2009-07-01T09:52:00.002+02:00

File includes new textures for Toddler-Elder.

These really do look fantastic on all fitness states and ages, as well as skin shade.

Download them here.

Default Replacement Eyes - modthesims

2009-07-01T09:42:00.003+02:00

Default replacement made for TS2, converted for TS3 by request.

Download them here.

Tribal tattoo 1 - modthesims

2009-07-01T09:39:00.002+02:00

A set of 3 tribal tattoes available for teen,young adult,adult and elder. This tattoo appears in accessories before glasses for female and male.You can see under naked,everyday,formal,sleepwear,swimwear,athletic,singed,career and in maternity categories. It's not recolourable and doesn't replace anything.

Download it here.

TS3 STBL editor - modthesims

2009-07-01T09:32:00.002+02:00

With this editor you can change ingame text, like item description, jobdescription, jobnames, etc.

Download it here

TANDY - EPISÓDIO 02

2009-07-01T09:31:00.002+02:00

IGN: Charting The Sims Expansions

2009-07-01T09:28:00.001+02:00

With The Sims 3 here and breaking all sorts of EA sales records, it's only natural that we begin to turn our thoughts to the inevitable expansion packs. After all, The Sims had seven expansions, not counting the special compilations that blended the core game with expansions. The Sims 2 beat that with eight expansions, again not counting special compilations.

Now, as financial companies like to tell you, past performance is not an indicator of future performance, but we thought we'd chart out the expansions for both games to see if we could notice any trends that could give us clues as to what may be coming up for The Sims 3.

Read the complete article here.

Default faces (From child to elder - both genders) - M. Calero

2009-06-30T11:52:00.001+02:00

The file includes default faces from child to elder on both genders (no toddler since I couldn't find the file T_T) and it works on all 6 colors and ranges.

It works with other default skins out there (fully compatible with HP and HP's modification on MATY), but you can only have one default face per age / gender, so if you decide to download this make sure you don't have other default faces installed.

Main changes:

* Lips: different for male and female, more realistic and less dark.
* Nose: more defined nostrils, tip and bridge.
* More brights & Shadows: on cheeks, nose, forehead and chin.
* Skin texture on cheeks and forehead on the YA & A skins.

Download them here.

Super Sims PARTY! Featuring "The Pope

2009-06-30T11:47:00.000+02:00

Sims 3 Live the Dream - Mary's Mansion

2009-06-30T11:44:00.000+02:00

The Sims 3 metro invade Paris

2009-06-29T11:01:00.002+02:00

The Sims 3 Will Be First Game in Multi-Title Relationship

2009-06-26T10:15:00.001+02:00

REDWOOD CITY, Calif. & PLANO, Texas–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Electronic Arts Inc. (NASDAQ:ERTS) and Dr Pepper today announced that the companies have entered a multimillion-dollar marketing agreement that brings original content to Dr Pepper consumers via EA’s blockbuster portfolio of games. Gaming fans may have access to exclusive premium content on select EA titles throughout 2010 with codes found on more than 500 million Dr Pepper products.

“We’re proud to partner with an innovative marketing company like Dr Pepper that has such a rich heritage,” said Elizabeth Harz, Senior Vice president of Global Media Sales for Electronic Arts. “EA is always looking for new ways to reach its fans, and by aligning with Dr Pepper, we’re able to offer consumers premium content that enhances the gaming experience.”

“The first-of-its-kind partnership with EA will give Dr Pepper fans an unrivaled experience by adding exclusive value to their games such as new levels and items,” said Tony Jacobs, Vice President of Marketing for Dr Pepper. “EA is the only media company that could reach our target audience with the breadth and depth of titles for gamers on any gaming platform.”

Gamers will experience many facets of this campaign ranging from co-branded retail initiatives to unique gameplay enhancing items for many of the popular 2010 titles and only available to Dr Pepper fans. The Sims™ 3 is the first title to participate in this campaign beginning early next year and will allow gamers to experience a variety of original content. For example, codes from specially marked Dr Pepper packages will unlock exclusive premium downloadable content that may include one-of-a-kind beach party items or all the elements of a perfect fall tailgating party.

“The Sims team is particularly excited about this offering because the Dr Pepper team shares our passion for introducing its brand to our player community in ways that will add to the players’ experience,” said Steve Seabolt, Vice President of Global Brand Development for The Sims. “This will include exclusive downloadable content available via our TheSims3.com community site. We have huge confidence that this ‘opt-in value add’ will have our players thinking very kindly of the Dr Pepper brand.”

Additional details of the relationship will be announced in the future.

The Sims 3 Will Be First Game in Multi-Title Relationship

2009-06-26T10:15:00.000+02:00

Official patch 1.2.7

2009-06-25T22:37:00.002+02:00

Latest Update for: 1.2.7

Complete list of changes:

* Addresses some issues with Speed 2 and 3 moving too slowly. Some machines will have better results when using Speed 2 and 3 now.
* Fix to story progression on/off selection toggle.
* Fix for a possible crash with audio code.
* Fix for babysitter routing off lots with babies.
* Addresses some issues with Vsync and refresh rate problems.
* Addresses some issues with DVD authentication errors and drive compatibility on startup.
* This update deals with some issues on Mac systems that can crash the game while connecting to AFP servers.
* Fix for a freeze that can occur when Sims attempt to clean out bad food from the fridge.

[Source: Thesims3.com]

Review: The Sims 3 - The Escapist

2009-06-25T08:18:00.002+02:00

The latest iteration in the franchise that distills the concept of games like SimCity and SimTower down to its most basic concept, Sims 3 places you, the player, in charge of a virtual person, or family, or couple, or whatever. More than just minions, your Sims are... well, they're like pets. You need to see to their needs, you need to help them become successful, and unless you're the sadistic sort who traps them in a room with no toilet and no doors, you need to keep them happy.

Read the complete review here.

Homosexuality, religion, and laundry in The Sims 3 - fidgit

2009-06-23T16:57:00.003+02:00

MJ Chun is a producer for the Sims series. Her focus on The Sims 3 was the Create-A-Sim feature, but she spoke with me about more far-ranging subjects, including what The Sims 3 learned from personal ads; how 28 Days Later was the inspiration for certain testing scenarios; and where the game stands on the controversy between dresses and pantsuits. We also touch on less incendiary issues like homosexuality, religion, and laundry.

TC: Laundry is just kind of dead time, isn't it?

MC: We could a laundry object, but then we'd want to hook it into an entire gameplay experience. Then we're going down that micromanagement path. If you make it just a fun object, you know, "ooh, a laundry machine!" and you get a bonus moodlet, then it's hokey. Do you really want to play The Sims and go, "Socks! I'm gonna do socks tonight!"

TC: Now you're not off the hook for the religion question...

MC: Oh, I know.

TC: ...but the laundry thing makes me wonder why you guys don't have clothes with gameplay implications, rather than just cosmetic. Again, as an RPG player, I'm used to different outfits changing armor class and stealth and whatnot. Did you guys ever experiment with that with The Sims?

MC: For us, because it's such a storytelling game, one of the things we don't want to do is make judgments. The danger of making a game that is international, that crosses so many ages, is that tagging clothing a particular way is a slippery slope in terms of making judgments. If you give the long flowing dress a moodlet because you're more attractive, then somebody would wonder "Why not the pantsuit?" It limits players' storytelling ability. I think it's the same deal with religion. It's a game for everyone. It's like public schools. Public schools are for everyone. We don't want to impose on anyone's storytelling. We don't want to make a judgment on anyone's particular way of seeing the world. This is your game, your story. If the player decides that they're going to tell a story of a particular sim and religion happens to be a part of it, that's the story they're telling. But we're never going to insert that into their gameplay.

Read the complete interview here.

EA Views Sims 3 Leak as 'Demo Program' - Industrygamers

2009-06-23T16:54:00.000+02:00

The Sims 3 was illegally downloaded something like 200,000 times prior to its actual release, outpacing the most pirated title of 2008, EA's Spore. Normally, you'd think this sort of rampant piracy would really be quite upsetting to a publisher. Ironically, however, this kind of leak for Sims 3 essentially served as a "demo program," EA CEO John Riccitiello told us as part of a larger E3 interview.

Read the complete interview here.

Delphy's CAS Texture Unitool - Modthesims

2009-06-22T14:32:00.002+02:00

Introduction

The CAS Texture Unitool (hereafter referred to as CTU), is a tool to basically allow you to edit the CAS Part files that control which textures appear on which meshes. Using this tool, you may add new textures that appear in CAS for a specific mesh. You may also edit the pattern cutouts for those textures, the specular, the base colours, and pretty much everything possible thats available in the file.

What this program does NOT do

It's not a program to do meshes. Use a meshing tool.

It's not a program to do textures. Use an image program.

It does not send satellite pictures to your PDA.

It does not (by default) allow default replacements.

Download it here.

Sims3Pack Explorer - Custom sims 3 forum

2009-06-22T09:14:00.001+02:00

Sims 3 Package Explorer

Purpose:
Tool to examine, extract, replace and modify Sims 3 package content.

The tool is written in Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 under C#. It is a windows tool not commandline stuff or something and should be able to do roughly the same as postal.

I do not have a built-in viewer for some of the more basic types, okay noted. But everything else to create or manipulate packages is in there and some things are not in postal. I let you users decide if its better or not.

Download it here.

s3pi demo package editor - Sims 3 tools

2009-06-22T09:13:00.001+02:00

This is a package editor, created mainly to test and demonstrate the s3pi library, but it is quite a useful package viewer/editor and packer in its own right.

Unlike earlier versions, as from 20 June 2009 you no longer need to install the library seperately, this download contains everything you need, apart from:-

You will also need to install Microsoft's .Net Framework 3.5 (from Microsoft's site) if you have not already.

The interface is not very user-friendly. You will not always get an hourglass when you should. Huge files will take a long time to open just like they did with SimPE. When you tick an option, it will not show a tick until the action you chose has finished. Be patient, but if something has not finished in 10 minutes that is probably a bug that needs reporting.

Download it here.

No mosaic - modthesims

2009-06-22T09:07:00.002+02:00

Mosaic (pixelation effect when nude) remover for The Sims 3.

Download it here.

The Legacy Challenge for TS3

2009-06-22T08:44:00.002+02:00

The Legacy Challenge is a long, 10-generation challenge where you start out with a single founder and very humble beginnings and try to lead the family to fame, fortune and success over the course of 10 generations.

Starting out
Create a brand new game file. You will be using this file exclusively to play your Legacy Challenge. You may use an existing game file, but your Legacy family must immediately become the “Active Household” and not cease to be active for the duration of the challenge. You may select any neighborhood.

The challenge begins with a single founder. Make this founder in Create A Sim. They may be male or female. They may be any age that can have children (YA, Adult and Elder for males, YA and Adult for females). You have full choice over their look, color and clothing. Custom content may be used if you like, including create-a-style custom patterns and colors. You may choose all 5 traits as well as their three favorite likes (food, music and color) and a lifetime want. No other sims may be created in the founder’s family. Be creative with the family name, you’ll be seeing it for quite some time.

Now to place the founder. While you are free to choose either standard town, there is a very specific lot that must be used. If you move into Riverview, you must move into “345 Riverblossom Hills Drive”. If you move into Sunset Valley, you will be moving into “15 Summer Hill Court”. The common thread between these lots is that they are large, empty and cost $14,700. Yes I know that leaves you with only $1,300 in cash to build a house, that’s the point. All legacies start out with very humble beginnings and expect your founder to live like a hobo for awhile. If additional neighborhoods are made available with mods or EPs, or we gain the ability to plop our own lots down, they may be used, as long as the lot in question is completely empty and costs at least $14,700.

Rules:
No cheating. Plain and simple, no money or mood cheats. You may use custom objects, as long as their price and mood effects are in line with similar ‘official’ objects. Objects purchased from the Sim Store are considered 'offical' as well as the ones included with the game.
Aging and story progression must be on and lifespans set to the normal level.
You are allowed to play with any Mod that does not give you a signifigant advantage over a player without the mod. The only specific mod I know of at the moment, Awesome Mod, is allowed.
The Legacy family must be the “Active Household” during the entire challenge. You may never switch the active household to another family. If you want to take a break from Legacy play, it is recommended you play in another saved game slot.
No Ambrosia! Your sims may learn the recipe for Ambrosia, but may not cook or consume the dish. Nor may ambrosia be used to ressurect ghosts.
You may not ressurect dead sims via the Science lab.

Black Market Restriction:
The used goods market is being monitored by the local police. As a result, it is next to impossible to pawn stolen goods for cash.
Items obtained "Illegally" may not be sold for cash. They may be placed on the family lot and used by the family or kept in inventory, just not sold.
An "Illegally obtained" item is the following:
Any item stolen by a Kleptomaniac
Any item salvaged from another sim's trash can
Any item obtained automatically while a sim is in the criminal career track.

Moving Sims in:
Any sim may be moved into the Legacy Family via marriage or move-in except for the following:
Sims created by the player
Sims/households downloaded and imported from the exchange
Sims that had previously lived in the Legacy household but had since moved out
Sims that are identified by your sim as "Rich'

All other sims are fair game. You are allowed to create/download/import sims and families into your Legacy neighborhood, they just cannot join the family.
No sims/families may ever be merged into the Legacy family. If you wish to add members, they must be done in game.

Challenge concepts
Generation: Order of birth in relation to the family at large. Your founder is generation 1, your founder’s son/daughter would be generation 2, the grandchildren of the founder would be generation 3 and so on. The challenge ends the moment generation 10 is born.
Founder: The sim you create in CAS who starts the family.
Heir: The sim belonging to the family bloodline who is slated to bring in the next generation once he/she is old enough and finds a mate.
Spare: A sibling of an heir, who can become an heir should anything happen to the current heir. Spares may be fed to the time stream or kept on the lot if you wish. They are eligible to earn legacy points for the family.
Fed to the time stream: Moving a controllable sim out of the legacy house. A sim fed to the time stream no longer can generate legacy points for the family, but still may be interacted with. Legacy points that have already been earned by this sim still count towards your total, even after you move the sim out.
Legacy Points: Your score for the challenge, earned in a variety of ways described below. The goal of the challenge is to get as many legacy points before the 10th generation.
Legacy House: The lot initially moved into by your founder. You may not move the family to another lot during the entire challenge. All heirs must be born in this house (or rather, born from sims living at this house, even if they use the hospital to give birth)
Bloodline: Any sim who can trace his or her family tree directly to the founder. Adopted sims are NOT part of the bloodline. Sims that are moved in are only considered part of the bloodline when they contribute to the birth of the next generation.
Mate: A sim brought in from outside the family to reproduce with the current generation’s heir to produce the next generation. When the next generation is born, the mate becomes part of the family bloodline and eligible to earn points.

Points:
You earn points for your family in the following ways.
Generation: You get 1 legacy point for your founder, and 1 point for every generation born until the 10th. You earn each point at the birth of the first child in each generation. Further births in that generation do not generate more points. Thus you can only earn a maximum of 10 total Generation points by completing the challenge and birthing the 10th generation.
Lifetime wants: You gain 1 point for every unique lifetime want fulfilled by a family member. The sim in question must be living in the legacy house and be part of the family tree to earn this point. Once a specific liftime wish has been fulfilled by a sim, further sims fulifilling that wish will not earn you a legacy point for doing so. There are 32 unique liftime wishes in the game, meaning you could earn a maximum of 32 points in this category.
Portraits: 1 point for creating a portrait of a family member and keeping it on display after their death. Like above, the sim must be part of the family tree and living in the legacy house to qualify for this point. You earn this point after the portrait is created, you do not have to wait for the sim in the portrait to actually die. Portraits are still worth their points even if the family member pictured is moved out of the house later on. The skill of the artist doing the portrait does not matter, as long as it features the sim in question it counts. Portraits may be of any size or style. Keep in mind that a sim must have a painting skill of at least 5 to get the option of painting a still life (needed to capture a sim’s picture).
Legacy House: Earn 1 legacy point for every $100,000 in net worth the house is worth. Use the "Furnished Value" of the house to get this figure. Do not include the net-worths of legacy family members that have been moved out of the house. Round up. Your family's weath in cash does NOT count tword this number.
Aspiration Rewards: If a sim is able to earn 100,000 points worth of aspiration rewards, they earn your family 1 legacy point. You are free to spend aspiration points as you gain them, it is your lifetime total, not your current total, that matters for this point. Like the other sim-based points, this may only be earned by family members. You may earn an additional point in this category from a sim if they somehow earn 200,000 points in their lifetime. .

Birth and growing up
Whenever a sim is born or ages up, they will often obtain new traits. Sometimes these traits are randomly assigned by the game. Other times the game lets you pick them. In the Legacy Challenge, all traits are random. If you are given the option to pick traits for any sim, you must hit the random button and accept the trait that is randomly assigned. The only exception is if you are playing with the "Family Trait" optional rule. If you are, and the family trait is one of the options, you may select that trait rather than hitting the random button.
Death
Sims that die on the family lot may be kept around as ghosts, or may be moved to a cemetery. It is up to you. If a sim dies and you forgot to get their portrait, making a portrait of their ghost does not count. If the bloodline is cut short by death, the challenge ends immediately. It is always a good idea to have at least one spare in case the heir perishes. Even if ghosts become playable, they may not earn any further points for the family. Ghost babies are not considered part of any bloodline.

Bringing in the next generation.
In order to bring in the next generation, a new sim must be born. Adoptions do not carry the family bloodline and thus don’t count. (You are still allowed to adopt sims if you really want to, but they won’t help point wise) If the heir is male, you must move their mate into the legacy family house before having a baby. If the heir is female, she may move her mate in, or simply get pregnant while off the lot. In either case, the heir and their mate don’t have to be married. Sims may be born at home or in a hospital, whichever you prefer. The moment the next generation is born, the heir’s mate officially becomes part of the family bloodline (and thus can earn lifetime want, aspiration perk and portrait points for you, provided they are living in the Legacy House).

Optional Rules
These are optional rules you may play with if you wish. They don’t affect your score in any way, and are merely tools to help establish a theme for your family.

Family Trait
When creating your founder in CAS, choose one of the founder’s 5 traits to become the ‘family trait’ for your legacy family. There after, every sim born to the legacy family must possess this trait by the time they reach young adulthood. If they do not inherit it at birth, you must choose that trait the moment you are given the option to. The remaining traits still must be rolled for.

Matriarchy/Patriarchy

Whatever gender your founder was, this must be the gender of every heir. Meaning if you started with a female founder, only female children may become the heir to bring in the next generation. Children of the other gender are still counted as part of the family bloodline and may still earn the family points, they simply may not bring in the next generation.
A male dominant family is called a Patriarchy, a female dominant family is a Matriarchy.

Story Teller

A popular practice is to write a story for your Legacy family and upload it in chapters. If you feel the creative energy, why not try uploading your own story? There is no in-game bonus for doing this, but the addition to the community is always welcome!

FAQ

Why do I have to buy such a big lot. I barely have money in the beginning.
Early poverty is a hallmark of the challenge. A large plot of land not only drains the available cash from your starting funds, it gives you the ability to build some epic sized legacy homes as you play through the generations and get more wealth.

If I’m playing with the family trait option, does my sim’s mate have to have that trait too?
No.

Can I move in/marry sims into the legacy home that aren’t going to help bring in the next generation?
Yes, keep in mind that they don’t earn any points for the family. Even sims that are destined to help bring in the next generation won’t count as part of the family until the next generation is actually born.

Does the first born have to be the heir?

No, as long as they are part of the bloodline and born on the legacy house they are eligible to be an heir, regardless of order of birth. They must be the proper gender if playing with the matriarchy/patriarchy option.

Are collection items, such as rocks, insects and seeds subject to the black market restriction?

No, you are allowed to sell any collection items you find...as long as they weren't stolen out of someone's house or garbage.

[Source: Pinstar]

Review: Create, play and share in The Sims 3 - Usa Today

2009-06-20T09:09:00.001+02:00

Between its unprecedented amount of character and home customization, myriad career and lifetime goal options and huge digital sandbox in which to play, there is enough engaging game play in The Sims 3 to keep you entertained for months.

Score: 4.5 (out of 5)

Read the complete review here.

Self-sim

2009-06-20T08:54:00.002+02:00

Silvana Nightlight
Gender: Female
Age: Young Adult
Fitness: Trim
Weight: Boney
Traits: Good Sense Of Humor, Computer Whiz, Artistic, Couch Potato, Loner

Download.

The Sims 3 celebrity freak show! - Gamesradar

2009-06-20T08:51:00.002+02:00

Everyone loves looking at celebrities. And based on our current cheats traffic, everyone loves playing The Sims 3. Following that infallible logic, a combination of the two could, should and would win the hearts, minds and clicks of the entire internet!

That was the idea, anyway. Then I actually headed over to The Sims 3 official website, started browsing their user exchange and discovered the horrible, horrible truth. I don’t know. Maybe gamers just need more time to learn the character creation system… maybe I wasn’t searching correctly… or maybe The Sims 3 is really only capable of producing the following frightening monstrosities. Either way, this is the best/worst/”what the hell” I could find.

Actually, you might want to scratch that “best” part.

Read more here.

Default Replacement Eyes for TS3 - aikea guinea

2009-06-19T23:12:00.002+02:00

These may not be The Most Amazing Eyes Ever Created, but I think they're a far cry better than the standard ones, and will be a good stand-in until someone comes along and does something better. ^_~
They work for all ages and both genders, and look fine in all colors and shades. The files have been compressorized.

Download them here.

Rumor: 2 expansions + 1 bonus pack in November

2009-06-19T15:10:00.002+02:00

Take the following piece of news as a grain of salt for right now – we don’t know much about expansions other than the fact that an African gaming site – Take 2 – is listing not one, but two Sims 3 expansions set for November. Not only that, but they are also listing a Stuff Pack for the game as well. Of course, it’s safe to say that we may get a Stuff Pack – even an expansion by that time, but I don’t think all three will hit. More than possibly they are using November as a placeholder date. Anyhow, we’ll know more about expansions/stuff packs in the near future!

[Source: Simprograms.com]

Memorable Date (Contest Entry)

2009-06-19T15:04:00.001+02:00

The Sims 3 - Behing the scenes, Pixie Lott recording her Sim song, "Mama Do"

2009-06-19T15:02:00.002+02:00

Die Sunset Valley WG - Folge 3: Sims and the City

2009-06-19T10:12:00.002+02:00

GG-Guys.com comic

2009-06-19T10:08:00.002+02:00

Click the image to enlarge it.

[Source: GG-guys.com]

Dr. Doodad and the Nosy Neighbor - The Sims 3 Machinima

2009-06-19T10:03:00.002+02:00

Sims 3 cars invade Paris !!!

2009-06-19T09:09:00.002+02:00

Alice and Kev - The story of being homeless in The Sims 3

2009-06-19T09:03:00.002+02:00

"Welcome to the tale of Alice and Kev.

This is an experiment in playing a homeless family in The Sims 3. I created two Sims, moved them in to a place made to look like an abandoned park, removed all of their remaining money, and then attempted to help them survive without taking any job promotions or easy cash routes. It’s based on the old ‘poverty challenge’ idea from The Sims 2, but it turned out to be a lot more interesting with The Sims 3’s living neighborhood features.

I have attempted to tell my experiences with the minimum of embellishment. Everything I describe in here is something that happened in the game. What’s more, a surprising amount of the interesting things in this story were generated by just letting go and watching the Sims’ free will and personality traits take over.

If this is your first time visiting, click below to read the story from the start.

Go to the beginning"

Read more here.

Pixie Lott sings Simlish

2009-06-19T09:02:00.000+02:00

The king of Sims - stuff.co.nz

2009-06-17T10:20:00.001+02:00

Rod Humble (the head of EA's gigantic Sims label)..

Although he's generally been involved in producing The Sims games, Humble appears as a Non Player Character in an expansion pack for The Sims 2, Free Time.

"It wasn't my idea and I objected at the time. It didn't feel right.

"At the time there were threads on The Sims forums - we've got a community of about 5 million people that visit each day - and one of the top threads was Top 10 Ways To Kill Rod Humble. Another was Top 10 Ways To Have Sex with Rod Humble." Forum members later created mutant children and started a forum called Top 10 Ugliest Kids You Can Have With Rod Humble.

"It was very disturbing," he says.

Read the complete interview here.

No Drift/Lower Level Free Cam Camera Mod (aikea guinea)

2009-06-16T11:54:00.004+02:00

This is a camera mod for TS3. It gets rid of the 'drift' in freecam mode (tab), plus allows the camera to go down to ground level. It's not as involved as Gunmod's TS2 camera mod was, but hopefully it'll be useful for people. It's allowed me to actually play the game for more than ten minutes at a time, at any rate.

Download here.

The Sims 3 Superguide - MyCheats

2009-06-15T10:20:00.001+02:00

What's a Super Guide? Think of it like this: a detailed strategy guide or walkthrough that everyone can contribute to. With more features than a normal guide, such as videos and images, MyCheats' Super Guides is an easy way to share your strategies with the community. Register an account and start contributing to the Super Guide!

Read more here.

The Sims 3 Bug Report - ign guides

2009-06-15T10:16:00.003+02:00

Bugs and solutions.

Example:

BUG: A neighbor comes over to visit, then leaves and steals the active family's baby.

SOLUTION: If a Sim is holding a baby and you ask them to leave, they will more than likely leave with the baby, and it will be removed from your family. Be sure to take your baby back before kicking them out of the house by interacting with the baby.

Read more here.

Paul McCartney

2009-06-13T20:22:00.004+02:00

Paul McCartney
("Let it be" version)

Download.

Ringo Starr

2009-06-12T21:56:00.001+02:00

Ringo Starr
Gender: Male
Age: Young Adult
Fitness: Normal
Weight: Thin
Traits: Party Animal, Lucky, Virtuoso, Good Sense Of Humor, Friendly

Download

John Lennon

2009-06-12T21:52:00.004+02:00

John Lennon
Gender: Male
Age: Young Adult
Fitness: Trim
Weight: Thin
Traits: Neurotic, Virtuoso, Good Sense Of Humor, Artistic, Charismatic

Download

The Sims 3 Workshop - BETA

2009-06-12T21:47:00.001+02:00

The Sims 3 Workshop BETA
Right now the only available plugin is the Pattern Tool.

Update: This is a new beta version (1.0.0.1), released 2009-06-12
Changes includes compression of data files, tiling, support for PNG and BMP mask images (limited to 3 channels), optional DXT compression and some minor bug fixes.

Download it here.

The Sims 3: interview with producer Melanie Lam

2009-06-12T21:44:00.001+02:00

- Which is your favorite new feature of The Sims 3?

Ooh, there are so many. I think if I have to choose one then I go for the statistics we added to the activities. For example, you can track how many fishes you’ve caught and which breed of fish. If your Sim is athletic you can see how many sit-ups he has done, or how far he’s off of running a marathon, etc.

Read the complete interview here.

Sims 3 Machinima - Dramatic Lunch

2009-06-11T22:14:00.000+02:00

The Sims 3 - Dreams Are Free

2009-06-11T09:08:00.001+02:00

Delphy's Pattern Packager v1.2 - modthesims

2009-06-11T09:03:00.003+02:00

The Pattern Packager program allows you to add new Patterns (aka items that appear in Create a Style) to your Sims 3 game. Each Pattern can have up to 4 recolourable "palettes", which are defined on the Red, Green, Blue and Alpha channels of the source image.

Ps. It is NOT possible to just download any old seamless pattern from the net and shove it in game. It WILL look bad and not work properly! You have been warned, and if I get any questions saying "I downloaded a pattern online and tried it and...." then I will find you and eat your pasta.

Download it here.